Organized with Erik Hollnagel (University of Linkoping Sweden) and Nancy Leveson (MIT, USA) the International Symposium on Resilience Engineering, October 20-25, 2004, Soderoping Sweden with about 20 participants from over 10 countries.

Symposium Objective
"Research on human reliability, human performance, and organisational aspects of risk and safety have led to the emerging area of Resilience Engineering as an alternative to error tabulations and probabilistic risk management. Resilience Engineering has been proposed as the new field, which enhances organisations’ ability to monitor/revise risk models and to target safety investments proactively despite ongoing production and economic pressures.

The objective of this symposium is to provide an opportunity for experts from around the world to meet and debate the presence and future of Resilience Engineering. Whereas many workshops are characterised by long presentations interrupted by short discussions, this symposium will consist of long discussions interrupted by short presentations."

A brief account of Resilience Engineering: Resilience Engineering Brief pdf

An edited book is being prepared based on the Symposium results.

Contributor to "Organization at the Limit: NASA and the Columbia Disaster" (Blackwell) which provides lessons for all organziations. Download the chapter -- Creating Foresight: Lessons for Enhancing Resilience from Columbia:
creating foresight pdf

Analysis of a medication misadministration and how it reveals generic patterns in collaborative distributed work. In particular the study highlights the role of cross checks in resilience and safety. The study appeared in a special issue of IEEE SMC Part A in November 2004. analysis of a misadministration pdf